- Date
- April 12, 1990, 12:45 local (16:45 UTC)
- Place
- Stuart, FL
- Injuries
- 2 uninjured
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Phase of flight
- Approach
- Aircraft
- N109SAPiper PA-44-180
- Weather
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Status
- Completed · report September 4, 1992
- Report
- Approved by Office Director
- FAA report
- 19900412035299A
- Case key
- 32647
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Probable cause
The instructor pilot's failure to correct the loss of airspeed resulting from the student's incorrect control input while on approach to land.
Sequence of events
NTSB’s coding before 2008: each occurrence and phase of flight, and the causes and factors under it. The codes are defined in NTSB’s coding manual.
Analysis
The instructor plt stated that during a short field landing, the student raised the acft's nose on short final at an indicated airspeed of about 75 KTS. The instructor lowered the nose & gave control back to him. The student again raised the nose, but due to the altitude & airspeed, the instructor told the student to go-around. The student retarded the throttle & the instructor then applied full throttle, but he acft stalled, descended rgt wing low & crashed on the rwy.
Aircraft
- Registration
- N109SA
- Reported as
- Piper PA-44-180
- Category
- Airplane
- Serial number
- 447995233
- Engine
- Lycoming O-360-E1A6D, 180 horsepower, reciprocating
- Damage
- Substantial damage
- Flight
- Instructional · Part 91
- Registered owner
- Unknown
- Airport
- SUA · Witham Field, runway 33, 5,000 × 200 ft, asphalt
Matched to the registry by N-number and the event date; the registry’s history has gaps, so older matches can be wrong. Compare the reported make and model.
Flight crew
As NTSB recorded them. NTSB leaves out names.
- Role
- Pilot
- Age
- 42
- Certificates
- Airline transport, Flight instructor, Commercial
- Airplane ratings
- Single-engine land, Multi-engine land
- Instrument ratings
- Airplane
- Medical
- Class 1, Valid Medical--no waivers/lim.
- Flight hours
- 3,500 total · 800 in this make and model · 3,400 as pilot in command · 160 in the last 90 days · 60 in the last 30 days · 5 in the last 24 hours
Weather
- Conditions
- Visual (VMC) · Day
- Wind
- 350° at 15 knots
- Visibility
- 10 statute miles
- Lowest ceiling
- None
- Temperature
- -0 °F, dew point -0 °F
- Observed at
- PBI, 31 nm away
FAA reports on this event · 1
The FAA’s own accident and incident reports, matched to the aircraft by N-number and date.